About Me
Although, I have more than twenty years of genealogical research experience (family trees, lineage society applications, photographing and cataloging gravestones, personal family tree pages), since my retirement three years ago, I now am able to devote the necessary time to that calling and to developing as a professional genealogist.
More recently, with the availability of genetic testing, I have also been involved with DNA analysis and have taken a number of advanced DNA courses.

Credentials

MD 1984, MS Physiology 1980

ProGen Study Group, completed November 2015

Genealogical Institute of Pittsburgh, “Advanced Research Methods,” July 2015

Forensic Genealogy Institute, Master Practicum, Certificate, March 2015

Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy, “Intermediate to Advanced DNA Analysis Techniques,” January 2015

Boston University, Certificate in Genealogical Research, May 2014

DNA Adoption, “The Basics of Autosomal DNA,”  2014

DAR Genealogical Education Program – I, II, III, “DNA and the DAR,” 2013
Chairman, Lineage Committee, Col. Joseph Winston chapter, DAR

Secretary, Executive Board, Yadkin Valley Historical Society

Memberships

Association of Professional Genealogists
National Genealogical Society

North Carolina Genealogical Society

New England Historic Genealogical Society
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania

Indiana Genealogical Society

Utah Genealogical Association

Daughters of the American Revolution, Col. Joseph Winston Chapter
Yadkin Valley Historical Association